The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-04-13


What the Newspapers Sag OF Men and
Women Of More or Less Fame.
The president Is an expert In rose garden
ing
Mark Twain talks of endowing a home for
pumped out humorists.
Gen Boulanger's wife is rabid hater Of
England and everything English
Smith Higgins is the king Of the dry goods
business of New York and worth SO, 000, 900.
NJ de Lesseps is about to bring out a vol
ume of Souvenirs" covering period OF forty
years in his eventful life.
Ahmed Ben Ahmar, an Algerian who has
just died, killed eighty lions and as many
panthers during his time.
Comedian w. J. Florence is going to Lon
don soon and while there viii be the guest OF
Henry Irving.
The health of James d. Fish continues to
grow worse, and it is thought that he will be
pardoned to avoid his death in prison
Anna Dickinson says she has had sew
eral offers to go upon the dramatic stage
She thinks she win go to Europe.
Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker carries the
idea of female emancipation so far as to de-
nand that half the police force in large cities
consist of women
The Cardiff Wales Western Mail an
nounces the death at the age of Ga of Mr.. C.
James Dyson Perrins, of the firm of Lea &
Perrins, the makers of the famous Worces-
ter sauce.
A. J. Drexel, Philadelphia's millionaire
banker, has built Greek temple of exqui-
sitely carved white Italian marble to be used
as mausoleum. The floor is seven feet
thick
Phillippoteaux, the celebrated French
painter, whose "Siege of Paris has been
greatly admired in this country, is now paint
ing cyclorama of Niagara Falls
The widow of Anthony Trollope is described
as charming old lady with lovely white
| hair She is still one of the lights of the
| literary society in London
Friar Anderledy, the successor of Friar
BecAx as superior general of the Society Of
| Jesuits, is famous as linguist. He can speak
| and write every important language in the
world.
| Bob Ford, who killed Jesse James, is en-
/ ployed as a waiter in Santa Fe hotel. Bob
/ Litten and another member of the old James
| gang are also in Santa Fe, dead broke, and
| hangers on about the saloons.
| Mrs Helen Cougar has sent an open letter
i to the women of Kansas, who are to vote in
| the municipal elections, saying: You will
| be required to give your name Do not give
/ your husbands name or your pet name, but
the one by which you were christened"
Senator and Mrs Leland Stanford spent
| Monday in Albany perfecting arrangements
| for the Lathrop Memorial Home for aged
l women. While there Senator Stanford said
| that during his Boston visit he had decided on
the plans for the Stanford university build
| ings The buildings will be grouped in a
| quadrangle, viii be constructed of California
sandstone, and will be Moorish in design.
| Work upon seven of the buildings will be be-
| gun this summer
Gen. Sheridan has a sunny corner room in
| the new war department building fitted up
| with furniture of his own choosing. Several
| cabinets are filed with Indian pottery and
| curios, and the walls covered with paint
| ings of western scenery with buffalos and
Indians in the foreground. Black Kettles
| war belt is as dear to him as a peachblow
| vase, and Sioux war club is the chief treas
| ure in the collection.
Adelina Patti is in her 47th year and Lilli
| Lehman in her 45th. Both are singing
| superbly, and immense audiences are spell
bound by their beautiful voices The fact
says The Musical Courier, is a lesson for
| young vocalsts who are ambitious to be full
hedged soloists in few summers, and who
expect to acquire before they are 25 what can
alone come with long experience and norma
development,
Mr.. s. c. Lister, the silk king" of Eng
land, is more than 20 years old, but stout and
hearty, and busy every day with the concerns
of his great factories and landed estates. He
invented wool combing by machinery, velvet
and plush making by machinery, and the
utilization of silk waste. He spent g., 200, 00t
in developing those industries. and has made
more than $3.50, 600 a year out of each Of
them. He says he never went in for any
thing in which he did not confidently see ovel
$250,000 a year.